We're gonna be doing the Ro64 in groups of 4, with two votes allowed, two games moving on and two eliminated. I could do it in groups of 8 with 4 eliminated, but I feel that would wipe out too many games that honestly don't deserve it.

All match ups are determined at random, as usual. Voting for each match will last one day, when the poll will close automatically. Tiebreakers will be broken by yours truly.

Right, lets get this started.

First up!

59. Secret of Evermore26. Shadowrun50. Flashback13. Super Metroid

Super Metroid gets play right out of the gate. Are you that eager for the blood of your enemies, Samus?

P.S. I am extremely gay for Shadowrun despite it's myriad flaws and I may cheat to make sure it wins

Note: I would like to remind everyone gently that while I have no conditions on how you are supposed to vote, please don't vote to cause intentional ties. I'd like to avoid having this be "Friday decides what games advance" as much as possible.

Friday wrote:P.S. I am extremely gay for Shadowrun despite it's myriad flaws and I may cheat to make sure it wins

Note: I would like to remind everyone gently that while I have no conditions on how you are supposed to vote, please don't vote to cause intentional ties. I'd like to avoid having this be "Friday decides what games advance" as much as possible.

Except for this round.

You can tie Shadowrun for second if you want. That's fine.

What's that? Do our best to conspire to bury Shadowrun as #4 losing forever?

Secret of Evermore is a really cool game that's maligned for a lot of unfair reasons, but it's not as really cool or maligned as Shadowrun is by far. Flashback has a pretty okay Game Center CX episode but I've never been super into that style of adventure platformer thing personally. Super Metroid etc etc.

Zombies Ate My Neighbors is a game that gets by far more on style than gameplay, but it's damned good style. The X series is weird in Mega Man numerology, since X2 and X3 aren't really all that great of a leap over X1. X1 was just too damn good out of the gate to have the same leapfrogging quality that MM2 and 3 had, and X4 was the one that shook things up with a platform jump. X3's kinda forgettable. I don't think I could name a single boss from it without checking. Super Punch Out is very good and has beautiful fucking sprite work. Earthworm Jim 2 has a boss named Flamin' Yawn and newts.